Joanna Ebenstein (ed.): Frederik Ruysch and his Thesaurus Anatomicus. A Morbid Guide. (The MIT Press, 2022)

The newest book by Joanna Ebenstein was released on 20 September 2022. I attended a Zoom symposium earlier on that month to celebrate this new book. During those four hours I made some quick notes and on the top of the A4 paper I had written “Science meet art”.  This book happened when Ebenstein met...

Remembering Dr. Knox for Wrong Reasons

The Scottish anatomist Robert Knox died on 20 December 1862. I had planned to write a blog post about his life to be published on the anniversary date, but I have changed my mind. This is not a post about him, but about the reasons why I don't write the planned article. I have dealt...

Remembering Marie Lloyd

Marie Lloyd died on 7 October 1922. It's time to have a look at her life. This is my second story about her and because of circumstances it differs a lot from my original plan. I base this story on two books that I read about her: Richard Anthony Baker's Marie Lloyd. Queen of the...

Joanna Ebenstein and Colin Dickey: The Morbid Anatomy Anthology (Morbid Anatomy Press, 2014)

The Morbid Anatomy Anthology was released already in 2014, but I still want to present this book as it's definitely worth it. And, what’s the best, you can still get it in relatively easily, either as a new book or as a second hand. The latter ones are much cheaper.  The Morbid Anatomy Anthology is...

Cyclopaedia à la TMTWNBBFN, Part XII: Supply & Demand

Cyclopaedia à la The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing is a series about songs by a London based band The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing. Or to be precise, this series is not about their songs as such, but short stories about people or things that they have written...

Tapio Katko, Petri Juuti & Riikka Juuti: Vesihuollon myytit (Vastapaino 2022)

𝑴𝒚 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉-𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔: 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒚 𝒊𝒇 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒖𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒖𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒔. 𝑺𝒐 𝑰 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒈,...

Joanna Ebenstein: The Anatomical Venus (Thames & Hudson, 2016)

Joanna Ebenstein's book The Anatomical Venus was published in 2016 and I bought my copy several years ago from London and I started working on the presentation several months ago, but finally I am ready to publish my story about this fascinating book. Even though my road with the book was a long one, I...

Mik Critchlow’s exhibition Coal Town at Woodhorn Museum, Ashington, until 24 April 2022

Coal Town is the name of the photographic exhibition by Mik Critchlow that is on display until 24 April at Woodhorn Museum in Ashington, England. Because of certain circumstances I haven’t seen the exhibition, but I have the book by the same name. Unfortunately, the book is sold out, but if you live in England...

The Life of Joseph Lister as Told by Lindsey Fitzharris in The Butchering Art

Joseph Lister was born on 5 April 1827. There are lots of material about him available online that covers his life and work, so there is no point to rewrite the story. Instead I base my story on Lindsey Fitzharris's book, which whole name is The Butchering Art. Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly...